Monday, June 23, 2008

If you are one of the people who has been thinking to themselves (woohoo! ill-considered plural-for-unknown-gender pronoun!):

"Selves, Backpacking Dad is creeping me out a little bit. He keeps showing up at my cyber-house and leaving notes on the fridge. Then he stops by my cyber-office and puts up a picture of himself on my whiteboard. And he's started leaving messages on my cyber-answering machine. Oh, and he's called my parents to see if I was 'around anywhere or doing anything he could help out with, or watch'."

then I apologize.

I'm gonna go ahead and stop now.

I'm done commenting on your blogs and Tweeting at you and tracking you down on Facebook. I need to meet some people out in the real world. I need to come face to face with people that I can talk to about life, the universe, and the rest (two references in one passage here...I'm waiting for Badass Geek to get both of these).

I'm going to take a little break in July. A couple of days off, out in the real world, talking to real people. So, for at least one weekend in July, around the 18th and 19th or so, I'm going to go up to the City, San Francisco to you non-Californians, and I'm going to get it together.

I'm going to hang around Union Square and talk to real live folks. Maybe I'll hang out at the Fancy Hotel down there, the Westin St. Francis. I hear there will be something going on there and maybe some people will be there who I can talk to.

It'll be nice to just get out of the apartment and not think about blogging, or the bloggers who read this blog, or the bloggers whose blogs I read, or the Tweeps I tweet at or any of those people who I stalk in cyber-space and who I make really really uncomfortable in cyber-life.

38 comments:

Dude there is nothing wrong with "tweeting around" your just friendly, and looking for friends.:DBy the way i'm Jonny.And I really enjoy your blog,it's very interesting.Well feel free to read/comment mine.I'd greatly appreciate it.:]

Jonny, it is awesomely creepy that you managed to dash off a comment on this fresh-minted post within 1 minute of my putting it up. I feel like you are outside my cyber-house peeking in my cyber-windows and I can't see where your cyber-hands are or what they are doing.

But I guess we can still be friends. Funny that you're coming to SF to go to a blog conference, when you have a friend in SF who could take you out to a Mission dive bar. Oh, but I forget, you're not 24 anymore, so you "don't do that".

Good god man, if we can't all be creepy once in a while what's left? I need my fix of other blogs just to reassure myself that I'm not the only one goofing up big time on the parenting front (and that's by no means a reference just to you).I'm off to read some more of your blogs just to check . . .

Heh. This weekend I was at back home, and the Canadian Tire had tons of Wings 2008 Cup Champs stuff. I grabbed a pennant and told my wife I was going to mail it to you. But she told me to put it back because if some stranger on the internet sent me a pennant, she'd be pissed (we don't put up sports paraphernalia).

Now, surely you didn't mean "Life, the Universe and EVERYTHING," did you? Because Douglas Adams is my god, and when people go around mis-quoting him, I get angry. And, you won't like me when I'm angry.

I could also challenge you to an Adams-quote-off anyday, "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally," anyone??

However, knowing how my day is going, you probably meant to almost quote Adams and are being far cleverer than me.

You may change your mind...last Christmas Captain America and I stayed at the Westin for a fancy Holiday Ball. We were walking down the street dressed in our finest rented apparal and a bum walked after us asking for a dollar....he told Captain America he had a "Hot Woman" on his arm and when Captain America said "NO" for the third time to the dollar beg, the bum said, "SHE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HO' ANYHOW!" - We laughed like Hell all the way there.

swirl girl: I burst out laughing at this one. Wow. Creep me right out. :}

madwoman: Obviously I enjoy creeping all over your blog.

whit: You and I can fly wing to Neilochka as he tries to get laid.

aea: If you'll notice, ass-hat, this is planned out about a month in advance. You and I can make plans a month in advance. If you aren't too busy spending all of your Vegas loot. You are so money.

tara: if you look long enough you will find a picture of Erin standing on a small table a day or so after she learned how to stand up on her own. I'm all about bad parenting.

scifi dad: I would have had to get it screened for anthrax or something. Mail? Real live mail from real live people? I'm automatically suspect.

carmen: call it fate. You and I can see who can hit 100 pushups the quickest.

neil: I'm bringing a sign that says: "I know Neilochka and you should all try to get him into bed."

kt: that's a very boding "yet" there.

attiton: I was side-quoting Adams :}

Badass Geek: As attiton has pointed out one of the references was to "Life, the Universe, and Everything", but instead of "everything" I switched to "and the rest", that infamous change in the theme from Gilligan's Island when the Professor and Marianne were going through some hard contract negotiations; this change was also lampooned a little in MST3K: The Movie. Shame on you. :}

danielle: alas, no. Maybe on Saturday, but I'll have her in daycare on Friday.

crazymumma: you know what's creepy? the phrase "reading you"....it sounds like you're right her with my arm pressed close to your eyes as you try to make out what my pores spell out :}

mandy: We're only allowed to go as eye candy. :}

m., ms. R., mom, auntie M., Marey: that's what I love about Union Square. I can always count on my friend AEA to be there calling women ho's.

No...you know what's creepy? The way you're always showing up around here without your shirt on, rubbing oil on our abs and stuff.

By "stuff" I don't mean "stuff," btw. Because that would be uber creepy.

What?

Ok, listen. I know. What is, in fact, really creepy is the way I'm always inserting your abs into things.

And by "things" I don't mean "things."

But I talk about them a lot. But you started it, what with your Ryan Reynolds this and your Ryan Reynolds that (and by "Ryan Reynolds this and Ryan Reynolds that" I DO mean "RR this and RR that"). People in the real world are all, "Seriously, we get it. Dude has imaginary good abs. Maybe you should get out more, lame ass," so I should probably abide by that and get out once in awhile.

I LOVE that you are going to Blogher. I think the Dads should just bum rush that place- too much estrogen is never a good thing. Ok, really I don't believe that but I DO think it's badass that you're going.